Example sentences of "[coord] only [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then turned to the govt. & only when the govt. took action did situations improve at all . |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing , ’ she denied , ‘ or only that he missed her when she returned to Ireland . |
| 3 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 4 | The test under option five would therefore be that the court should intervene only if there is unreasonableness in Lord Greene M.R. 's narrow sense of that term , or only if there is manifest irrationality in the sense that preceded the development of the hard look doctrine in the United States . |
| 5 | procedurally , does it apply whenever Article 1600A is used or only if a qualified majority vote is taken ? |
| 6 | In particular , a change of context will attenuate latent inhibition whether the test context be novel or familiar but will restore the OR only when a novel test context is used . |
| 7 | Whether platelet endo-peroxides have a proaggregatory role in their own right or only when converted to thromboxane A 2 has been the subject of many studies ( Bunting et al , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | And when you write your address down , do you quote your full postcode , always sometimes or only when asked ? |
| 9 | If a disease is caused by a mutation in a gene , it may be ‘ dominant ’ or ‘ recessive ’ — that is , it may occur when only one of the two copies is mutated in spite of the presence of a normal gene , or only when both are defective . |
| 10 | English law has special provisions to allow for computer records to be admitted , however , it is currently uncertain whether the conditions apply to all computer evidence or only when admitted as hearsay . |
| 11 | Even if it were true that all of consciousness and only that fell under statements of the three kinds , or related kinds , we would by means of this truth get only a wholly uninformative conception of consciousness . |
| 12 | The cells could be multipotential , migrate to all the sites and only once they had arrived would they , due to local signals , be directed along the correct developmental pathway . |
| 13 | Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than Ellen 's barely decipherable notes which came rarely and only after money had been remitted . |
| 14 | Over the centuries the best Italian architects , Solari , Amadeo , Pelligrino Tibaldi ( known as Il Pellegrini ) and Richini , worked on the building , although the façade was actually finished by Carlo Amati , the final stage being completed after many years of inactivity , and only after Napoleon took an interest in the building . |
| 15 | ‘ My parents , when visiting to see the newborn , were always very careful to ignore , almost , the new baby and fuss the older one just as she was used to , and only after she had gone to sleep did they make a fuss of the new baby . |
| 16 | In this scenario the mammals emerge not as natural conquerors , but as opportunists , filling a gap , an ‘ adaptive zone ’ with a range of ecological niches , after , and only after , the old regime had run its course . |
| 17 | And only after the incident did she find out that a handwritten notice had been displayed in the booking office . |
| 18 | ‘ Looking over this table ’ , Mr Frye observes , ‘ we can see that European fiction , during the last fifteen centuries , has steadily moved its center of gravity down the list ’ — so much so that , as has been remarked of The Hobbit , the co-existence of ‘ romance ’ characters like Thorin Oakenshield with ‘ ironic heroes ’ like Bilbo Baggins is immediately comic and only after many adventures rises to gravity . |
| 19 | I believe very much that every artist must first learn the language of his art , the conventions , and only after he has mastered them , can he go on . |
| 20 | The children were only allowed to open the present she indicated and only after she had looked at her watch to give the go-ahead to tear the paper off ‘ It was completely mad , ’ says Charles . |
| 21 | Alice sought out Mary and they watched appreciatively as the two strong , tall , graceful , beautifully built young men whirled each other about , endured two dog falls — draws — and only after several lengthy spasms of athletic tussling arrived at the deciding fall . |
| 22 | The worker should make strenuous efforts to help parents exercise their rights fully , for example by helping them obtain legal advice , and only after these steps have been taken , should a final agreement be signed . |
| 23 | The reports of the amnestic effects of protein synthesis inhibitors were first ignored , often on the same sorts of a priori grounds that had led to my initial scepticism , and only after some struggle accepted by these definers of the field . |
| 24 | The novel , as I should have thought was tolerably well known , first appeared serially in the Revue de Paris ; then came the prosecution for obscenity ; and only after the acquittal was the work published in book form . |
| 25 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 26 | He exuded sympathy and concern , urged Amiss to take as much time off as he felt necessary , assured him he would be given sick pay and that his job would be secure , and only after a long argument agreed very reluctantly that he could come back on duty the following day . |
| 27 | The dislocation in C may be because its scribe entered Lyfing 's death under 1020 from another record , and only after this turned to the entry in the main Cnut chronicle , from which he then omitted it . |
| 28 | And only after he had paid back every penny of his debt on the new barrow and been left with hardly any spare cash to talk of did he begin to realise just how good a costermonger the old fellow must have been . |
| 29 | And only after they had been proven would we sell them to others . |
| 30 | A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) . |